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New Album to be released soon on iTunes and Indaba Music Store

Here's the artwork for the new CD Album "Passing Through the Portal" The release on iTunes and Indaba Music is pending will be available very soon. I'm excited to share this with everyone, and will be working on much more music this year. The western-folk trio that I perform with is also working on a recording, and I will be posting some new samples for this collection as well. This blog will become more active this year to keep track of everything that is going on, and hopefully everyone will enjoy as much as I do this music.

"Passing Through The Portal" digital cover

Jewel-case front and inside page

Jewel-case tray card

CDROM art Preview of the Album can be listened to now at: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/109329

New album to be released by April, 2012

There will be a new album released by April, 2012 with original compositions and exclusive recording production by Kevan Paul. The emphasis is on electric-violin in various fusion styles overlay-ed across a background of jazz-rock, smooth-jazz, and ambient electronic styles. The album will be initially available through Google Play, but will try to get published on iTunes, etc. as the project progresses. At least half of the songs will be added to the YouTube channel (2010media) to experiment with other visual elements and related ideas for the compositions. A more detailed description of the songs will be added to this web page. The name of the album is "Passing Through The Portal" which is also the name of track 4 of the album. The intent of the album is to continue the exploration of using electric-violin in fusion styles, especially where synthesizer sounds can be added and invented. The intent is to go beyond the dance-beat influences and provide an interesting sound-scape to overlay melodic violin to blend into an interesting ambient quality of sound. There are obvious influences from classical, new-age, jazz-rock fusion, and smooth-jazz that tend towards allowing the violin to create effortless melodies. This is the foundation for this album.

Falling Water

Here's my latest composition published as video on YouTube. This is the second song of a series to be published this year on Jamendo, which will be my third album collection to be self-recorded and produced in the "Ambient, New Age, Instrumental, Soundtrack" type of composition. I am continuing to explore the various techniques for incorporating electric-violin in music for dance, film, and concert-halls.

First Chill of Autumn

New original composition: "Integral House Stimulus Package" (KP2-04)

This original composition by Kevan Paul was completed on the same day that the Wall Street Journal featured an article about a 21st Century architectural wonder nick-named "The Integral House", because the owner is a mathematics professor and author of many college text-books for calculus. He is also a violinist, so this piece fits perfectly with the theme. The result is a musical tribute to the "Integral House" with the word Integral added to the original title. Thanks to Shannon Kyles for generously allowing me to use her photographs. The violinist in the pictures is the owner of the home-concert-hall.

This new composition has many elements that are new to my recording efforts, but not all of the original ideas ended up in the final mix - some of these will be in the next composition. The title of the piece is a phrase that keeps appearing in the economic news, and is somewhat to the point of my wanting to create a stimulus package to help make creative things happen around me. More to the irony of the current situation is that everyone I know needs an economic stimulus package - so let's give one so that we may get one. The piece includes six different sections, which are repeated in various form with a chord pattern that starts with Gm7-F#m-Gma7-Dm-Dm-Em, etc. This is in a jazz-fusion modal form, which defies resolving to maintain the tension. The piano gives the underlying repetition in section 2,4,6, while the violin gives a soulful introduction in section 1. The "electric-guitar" gives us taunting questions throughout the piece, with no definite resolution to these musical statements. The repetitions pattern with the first quarter note rest followed by three quarter notes with varying levels of syncopation, is a deliberate statement of ambiguous rhythmic melody to further confuse and entertain. The statement of unison in the last section resigns itself to the current situation. These are the metaphorical undercurrents of the piece. I wanted to create something that sounded like some of the jazz-rock fusion pieces of the 70's and 80's that I love to listen to, while adding additional soundscapes such as the synthesizer rhythms and the "storm" during the second section. I hope the sun finally comes out - as metaphorically I've been waiting intensely for the spring storms to end and the real warmth to arrive so that I enjoy some outdoor activities in the sun. I happy with this piece because it includes my favorite jazz-rock fusion elements with violin.

New Re-Mix of Michael Hedges "Baal T'Shuva"

Since this song has received comments on the blog, I've re-mixed again to sound better. Thanks for input from JS54inMO; I agree with your observations. I re-mixed the recording with less volume on the shaker, fixed some note discrepancies on the violin and balanced the violin with the guitar better. Hope you like the new rendition better. - Kevan